Don't waste money on illegals

Those who denounce opponents of illegal immigration as insensitive, inhumane racists are myopic and short-sighted.

The poor, uneducated, unskilled, non-English-speaking mass of humanity violating our southern border will be an immediate and long-term burden on the U.S. taxpayers.

I read about challenges teachers will face when the new students arrive. Some don't even speak Spanish, speaking a Mayan dialect. Most have never seen a computer. What will this do to our kids when the curriculum is dumbed down to accommodate the illegals?

To spend over $4,000 per child per month is a slap in the face to citizens struggling to support their entire family on less.

They are coming for a free ride courtesy of you, the taxpayer. If they were fleeing violence, they could have stopped in Mexico.

This is an economic migration. They are not refugees. They want a free ride and almost all of them will be a net negative on our economy.

We don't have the money. We do not need to borrow more money to sate Obama's quest for a legacy.

I called my boyhood friend, Dr. F. Carden Johnston in Seattle, a former president of the American Academy of Pediatricians, and asked if he had seen the article. A friend had sent him a copy the day before. I asked him to comment, which he did with the caveat that he was speaking for himself and not the Academy.

He had served as pediatrician on call in emergency rooms during many years of service in New Orleans, Birmingham, London and Honolulu. He stated that a pediatrician's primary concern is the health, safety and welfare of children.

He had seen over 200 cases of children wounded while playing with guns, about 1 in 10 fatally.

I was astonished at his statement that children under age 10 suffer gunshot wounds virtually every day in the U.S.

Unsecured firearms in homes are certainly a legitimate concern of doctors. It is only reasonable that a fundamental precaution of gun owners with children should be to keep weapons under lock and key.